“The public will not only forgive you but they will say move on," Spitzer said. "Because this is where the reservoir of good will comes from ... you have been the journalist who focuses on the tough issues."

"No one agrees with you all the time but when it comes back to the issue of care for those who are disabled, for the weakest and poorest and most vulnerable in our society, you did something so overwhelmingly important that a reservoir of goodwill carries through."